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01 March 1984 Comments Reviews Weather and Bird Behaviour. By Norman Elkins. Illustrated by Crispin Fisher. Poyser, Calton, 1983. 239 pages; 31 black-and-white plates; over 30 line-drawings. £12.60. The subject matter of the book deals mainly with the effects of the n...

Insect, amphibian or bird?

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Mystery photographs

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Points of view

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Notes

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Letters

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Recent reports

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Expeditions

01 April 1983 Comments Main paper This is the third of these features on ornithological expeditions; our first reports appeared in April 1979 and May 1981 {Brit. Birds 72: 139-142; 74:218-223). Leaders of expeditions within the western Palearctic (and also by British and Irish ...

Identification of first-winter Pallas's Reed Bunting

01 April 1983 Comments Main paper A first-winter female Pallas's Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi on Fair Isle, Shetland, on 17th September 1981, was tentatively identified in the field. Examination of skins and a literature search were necessary, however, to determine the features diagno...

Identification of white-rumped North Atlantic petrels

01 April 1983 Comments Main paper Leach's Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa and Storm Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus occur regularly off our coasts, mainly in the west and north, during March to October. For many birders, autumn gales provide the only opportunity to witness these small, mainly...

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